owenfromcanada @ owenfromcanada @lemmy.ca

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Where do they come from, fedi-bot Joe?

"Wisdom pursues you, but you've managed to outrun it."

or

"Wow, it must have taken all three of your brain cells to come up with that."

Owen Wilson is looking rough these days.

There's one other advantage to wireless here: a bionic prosthetic is moving a lot, and that's not great for wire harnesses or connectors. Going wireless potentially allows for greater range of movement (or at least removes the engineering challenge of making it durable long term).

Damn, if she has any tech-savvy siblings, this would introduce a whole new level of "why are you hitting yourself"

Women tend to eat smaller portions

[citation needed]

The black bishop is standing up on the ropes, about to do a sweet jump

Sorry, I can't retell it. Not after last time.

You know we don't count Gary. Not after last time.

A search engine from 2012? Not sure these days.

In other words, most people have an above-average number of legs.

Yeah, I've heard that--in fact, I made the joke largely because I expect lots of people to mentally start saying, "well actually..." before getting to the punchline.

Ooh good point. Though there's only around 120,000 giraffes in the world, not sure what the probabilities are that any are trying to swallow a gerbil at any given time (and probably a more localized time window, given they're less spread out).

Right! Corrected

The human embodiment of Internet Explorer, everyone.

"Seriously guys, I'm a doctor! I have a PhD!"

"Sure buddy, what was your dissertation about again?"

"Uh... the beneficial effects of marine mammal urine on--"

"Whale piss! Enjoy your pee-hD, weirdo."

Some rights can be similar, but you'll always have to declare the other person as your legal whatever. Marriage says to the state that this person is my default for pretty much everything--power of attorney, medical stuff, property ownership, etc. So if I get in an accident and fall unconscious, my wife doesn't have to fight the hospital staff to see me.

Depending on your country, there are other bonds that have the same legal binding as marriage.

In addition, if we're honest, there are some "soft" benefits as well. My wife changed her name when we got married, and having the same last name (and our kids having the same last name) avoids a lot of complexity with things like traveling (especially because our daughter is a different skin color than the rest of us). Marriage didn't explicitly grant us that privilege, but there are a lot of societal norms that come with it that have proven beneficial.

I'm not trying to claim that any of this is how it should be necessarily, but if you're asking about practical reasons why, those are some of them. If you want the practical benefits without the cost, it's (relatively) cheap to go to the courthouse or Vegas. Hell, you can get a friend to perform the ceremony for free, all you pay is for the marriage license. But if you're otherwise not interested in marriage and those benefits don't appeal (or whatever other reason), just stay dating.

Doubtful. Without Linux running the majority of the internet, I doubt the desktop scene would look the same as it does today.

I'm not an expert, but any time I've needed to do this, I set up my own router as a client to the parent router, and I set my router (client) as the DMZ in the parent router. Effectively you end up with two routers that are both (more or less) connected directly to the internet, without the two networks messing with each other. It's also minimally invasive to the parent router (even old stock firmware has always had a DMZ option).

The tricky part then is using the wireless connection as your "WAN port," rather than a physical one. In which case, as long as you can install OpenWRT on it, you should be fine.

Arrest him, y'all bumblenuts!